actually, rubella vaccine is only given to young kids for fear of infecting pregnant women.
So unless the 11 year olds didn’t have kids two years later, it did not cause the fertility drop.
The fertility drop is due to 1) increased prosperity and 2) the flight of Brazilians from Catholicism, thanks to “liberation theology”, which removes the cultural Catholic way of worshiping in favor of the religion of socialism...
Most Brazilians need “meat” in their religion not this watered down pap...that is why many poor “catholics” there actually have reverted to African like pagan cults and the pious have become Protestant, especially Pentecosal Christians, who of course encourage limiting families in the name of responsible parenthood.
Tetanus vaccine is given at your first visit at prenatal clinic, which is where this urban legend started. However, it is given so the mom’s antibodies will stop the babies from dying of neonatal tetanus.
And this urban legend is at least 20 years old, starting as propaganda from the old USSR propaganda machine against western vaccination programs. A variation of this urban legend is the panic against measles and polio vaccines in Muslim lands.
Alas, the result will be dead or crippled kids...
They were sending TROOPS to remote villages to collect women in their mid 40s for the mandated vaccination. Including women with DOCUMENTED prior cases of rubella...
Even little girls who had DOCUMENTED prior cases of rubella.
They force vaccinated every single woman in those age groups for a disease that 400 people (people, total, not just pregnant women...) in the entire country had had before.
Because THAT was the MOST pressing healthcare/infrastructure need?
Not clean drinking water, better sterile/antiseptic practices at health clinics, treatment of diabetes and hypertension in pregnant women, prenatal nutrition, good transition foods for babies at weaning age?
Do a lookup on brazil and rubella vaccination.
and then look at their fertility rate over the past decade.
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=br&v=31
http://www.hknc.org
/Rubella%20Watch_Special%20Brazil%20Edition_ENG_final.pdf
As opposed to about 50 other things which they really need more.
This round-up-all-the-women scare was promoted on the grounds that local midwives are, for instance, using unsterilized scissors to cut umbilical cords. Wouldn't it be somewhat more efficient to give every midwife a couple gallons of bleach and show her how to sterilize her scissors?